The Windows installer fails when running unelevated

tristanlabelle commented 10 months ago

Since https://github.com/apple/swift-installer-scripts/pull/251, the installer packages the VC redistributable, which is a machine-wide install, even though the Swift toolchain itself if a per-user install. This step hence fails when running the installer unelevated. We might be able to switch back to using ExePackage, which I believe will show an elevation prompt but has other limitations on detecting prior installations, or we could mark that step Vital="false" and allow it to fail when run unelevated.

barnson commented 10 months ago

Burn uses CreateProcessW to launch ExePackages too, so there's no UAC prompt.

tristanlabelle commented 9 months ago

Fixed by bundling individual dlls via https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/69743 and https://github.com/apple/swift-installer-scripts/pull/256

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The Windows installer fails when running unelevated #253